She Was Both Called God, as Well as Satan - CH 62

Following the death of the first homunculus, a new subfield of research opened up. The development of “Homunculus Soldiers.”

The plan itself had existed for quite some time, but it was shelved in consideration of the first homunculus girl, the beloved enigma of the nation.

However, with the girl now resting within a casket, many scholars begin to open up research in the field.

The number of available soldiers around the world was running low, and countries wanted troops specialized solely for combat rather than flawed human troops.

In order to meet the demand and, above all, to improve homunculus technology, research on combat specialized homunculi had been promoted at various research institutions in the Republic.

Only a few months later, the Republic succeeded in their first batch of combat homunculi.

Their external appearance was almost identical to the normal girls of various races, but their internal structure was everything but the same. In the first place, they ran on magic and needed no flesh nor blood.

The homunculi that had been produced so far were developed in the image of “friends of mankind,” who were expected to work in fields with a lot of human contact, like working as maids or nurses.

To that end, despite running solely on magic stones, they could sleep, they could eat, and many more “luxury functions” were packed in, like excretion

But weapons didn’t need such features. Rather, they were just obstacles, useless functions that would only drive up cost while lowering efficiency. The researchers only kept the necessary organs and nothing more. And with all that extra space, larger more powerful magic stones could be installed.